Link-belt attachment.



J. EKLUND. LINK BELT ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 3, 1908.

' I vwanfoz stops in t basket making or-other machines.

\ transported by the chain. That is to a said stops may be atregu vide lon UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

JOHN EKLUND, or s'r. JOSEPH, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO ST. JOSEPH IRON WORKS, OF ST. #Jos PH, MICHIGAN.

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- Pl-teamed 0a. 27, 1903.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit'know'n that I, J ems" EKLUND, a citi- -zen of the United States, residing at St. Jose h, in the county of Berrien and State-0f ichi an, haye invented a ne'w an useful Linlr-fielt Attachment, of which the follow} mgris a specification. i. f v his invention has relation to attachments for link belts and it consists in 'thenovel'construction and arrangement of its parts as h ereinafter shownand described; j The ob'ect of the invention is toprovide e form of attachments whichmay plied to link belts for the purpose of card the like v The steps. are so constructed that they may be adjustr ably attached upon thelink beltwhereb'y the 1 distance between the said stops-may be regulated to a nicety in order 'toadaptthe stops to reeeive-betweenthem the" articles to e say the lar intervalsapart rying articles as paper stock an or they may be so adgustedjthat there is greater or less space between them. In the accompanying drawings, Fi re 1 is a lan View ofa section of llnk be t prowith the adjustable stops. 2 is a v gitudinal sectional view-of one of t e sto s "mounted upon 'one of the links of the be t. Fi '3 is a transverse sectional view of a link an stop mounted thereon, and Fig. 4. is a rspective view of one of the stops remove omthe link;

horizontal lanes as thoe'eoccupied by the bod of the'linl s 1. The loops 2 are elongated. E ach stop 3 is provid d with a shank 4- which is rovided upon itsunder side with spaced ugs The lugs 5 are adapted to enter the,

2 and the spaces between y i theends of the'loop is mounted a The sto screw' fi which is a 2 upon which thestop 3 3 is provided with a apted to be inserted throu h theloop 2 and 1s so disposed that its head. I a l-s agellnst the opposite'sides of the under portion'offlthe loop, and forms means fof-holdin the stop 3 in lace upon the loop uporrwhic it is mounte Itis obvious that the stops 3 maybe shifted along the loops be spaced at: proper intervals apart. lso t \will be observed y reason of the fact thatthe spaces between the lugs 5 straddle the ends ofthe loop, it'is impossible for thestop 3 to move; either laterallyor longitudinally of the d in vthe presence of two The links 1 are provided at their sides with I loops2. The loops 2 occupy thesame po'sition thereon. Having" described my invention what I claim as newand desire to secure by Letters Patent is In a chain, having 'a shankpIOVld the loop a link havin a e -with spaced lugs and engage the sides thereof and means for fixing the stop in an adjusted position upon the l p 'In testimony that I claim my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature witnesses.

JOHN EKLUND,

Witnesses ze- W E H 2' so that the said stops mayhen it is once adjusted in its proper side loop; a stop the foregoing as thesaid lugs be used to straddle one or the other of- 

